With endless talk about IP and franchises taking over theaters to attract young audiences, something often gets overlooked: the continuing box office power of adults, and the potential of fr…
There's seeing a movie with a live audience, and then there's the probably once-in-a-lifetime experience that was Monday night's Chinese Theatre screening of "RRR," which had director-writer…
Audra McDonald knows her new Broadway show is surprising theatergoers. "Some people come to see 'Ohio State Murders' and they're taken aback by how I'm speaking or the words that I'm using,"…
Jeremy Pope doesn't break into a new medium quietly. The actor not only earned a Tony nomination for his Broadway debut in 2018's "Choir Boy" by Tarell Alvin McCraney, he also became one of …
Ryan Raftery has written and starred in stage musical parodies about Martha Stewart, Anna Wintour, Andy Cohen and Andy Warhol. The actor is now taking on Kris Jenner. "Just for Variety" …
A little over a month since hitting theaters, "The Menu" is now being served for at-home streaming. The Anya Taylor-Joy thriller is now streaming on HBO Max. The dark comedy is produced by A…
Caesar meets Cleopatra, Stalin meets Roosevelt, Marilyn Monroe meets the Kennedy brothers: Consequential connections all. So, too, is the meeting and eventual partnership arranged by savvy N…
Lea Michele is officially the greatest star. "Funny Girl," the once-struggling musical revival, has been selling strong and broke the all-time box office record at Broadway's August Wilson T…
How well can you ever really know a person? Do you judge by their actions, their hopes or some combination? Like many city creatures, the New Yorkers of "Between Riverside and Crazy," now pl…
"Almost Famous," the film-to-stage adaptation of Cameron Crowe's semi-autobiographical look at his early years in rock journalism, will finish its Broadway run on Jan. 8, 2023. It's the late…
The 13-year wait is finally over. James Cameron's "Avatar: The Way of Water" is now playing in theaters, and with it comes a question moviegoers will probably be asking themselves once the c…
When "Top Gun: Maverick" landed in theaters this summer, audiences around the world enjoyed the excitement of soaring through the sky alongside the Navy's best of the best. One key to creati…
Tectonic Theater Project, the 30-year-old company behind international stage successes "Gross Indecency" and "The Laramie Project," has unveiled an upcoming slate of projects including a New…
Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the 87-year-old regional-theater stalwart that has become a leading player in the theater industry's push to increase diversity, equity and inclusion, has partne…
AMC Theaters, the country's biggest movie theater chain, is launching a credit card. The AMC Entertainment Visa Card, coming in early 2023, will offer its holders the opportunity to earn add…
On a rainy Sunday afternoon, "Some Like It Hot" opened on Broadway and furnished the Shubert Theater with its most glittering audience in recent memory. Patti LuPone, Bette Midler, Nathan La…
Delivering songs demanding freedom not only for the characters but the whole country under apartheid, the impassioned cast of the new musical "Mandela" (now premiering at the Young Vic in Lo…
After spending the last 30-plus years as an Off Broadway favorite, actor Deirdre O'Connell ("Becky Nurse of Salem," "Corsicana") walked away from the 2022 Tony Awards with a trophy for her w…
The 76th Tony Awards will shake things up by moving the celebration of all things Broadway uptown to Washington Heights. For the first time in its history, theater's biggest night will unfol…
Mooky Greidinger, the CEO of troubled multinational theatre operator Cineworld, has been given a six-month suspended jail term by a court in Israel. The company, which has 9,139 screens in 1…
Moments before showtime at a recent performance of "Ain't No Mo,'" a bold new Broadway play, the show's creator and star Jordan E. Cooper encouraged audience members to take out their phones…
Taking a classic film comedy " especially one that plays fast and loose with gender and sexuality " and turning it into a big Broadway musical is far from a sure thing in these contemporary …
Paramount's upcoming "Mean Girls" movie musical has set its main cast " and it's so fetch. Reneé Rapp, Angourie Rice, Jaquel Spivey and Auli'i Cravalho will star in the film, based on the T…
Jon M. Chu's "Wicked" films have found a few more citizens of the Emerald City, filling out the already star-studded cast. Marissa Bode will make her feature film debut as Nessarose, Elp…
It may be easy to take for granted that Audra McDonald, with six Tony Awards to her name, is capable of performances that creep delicately into your psyche and rattle around there as if clea…